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… in Bob and Dave and Doug’s Flash-Flash Fiction Contest, and they’re right here, at ChiZine Publications’s website. Dedicated yard-apes may recall that the contest to find the best short-short-short story (300 words or less) closed to submissions last month, with promises that January 2 we’d come up with a winner and two runners-up. The […]

… appropriately enough. While the rest of us were whooping it up last night, counting down the end of December 2009, the literary web-zine January Magazine was posting its best fiction of 2009 piece – a list of just over 20 books that its editors liked best from the past year. They liked all kinds

Well, it’s New Years Eve. Soon I will be putting on my ritz-pants for the evening’s celebrations. For now, I am working on mid-point outlining for the very secret project of which we must not speak. And also, recalling how much I like Amanda Palmer, and wish I’d made it to a show like this

With just days to go before the end of the year, Quill & Quire reviewer Alex Good has put together his 2009 year-end summation at his blog/website Good Reports. There’s not a top 10 list, or a bottom 10 list. But there is this: “It’s customary to end the year with a list of highs

… and we’ll see how it goes, this Christmas Cream Tea reading. I spent the last couple of days battling laryngitis, and this morning have something resembling a voice. So I’m going to try and read a short story in such a way that won’t ruin everybody’s Christmas and start a run on returns for

… of monsters, in an interesting and provocative way, can be found at the Chronicle of Higher Education today, in Monsters and the Moral Imagination by Steven T. Asma. For long-time monster-afficionados such as we, his revelation that a close reading of Dracula ” will reveal not only a highly sexualized description of blood drinking,

The launch of Tesseracts Thirteen – the scary-story edition of the long-running Canadian sf anthology series – was, by all accounts, a shrieking, quivering success yesterday. There was a huge crowd of authors – a somewhat larger crowd of readers (always a good sign at these things) – and a healthily-diminishing stack of books. Karen

… and for those who can’t make it, to Bakka Phoenix books, at three, may I present some John Adams. With Lego. Enjoy.

No, it’s not a boat, or a rocket, or a tirade. Tesseracts Thirteen is the latest edition of the long-running sf anthology series for and by Canadians, and when I say it launches I mean that there is a big book-selling party in its honor, and it’s happening this Saturday. We’ve spoken of this before

I’m back, from Worldcon in Montreal – and it was a fantastic time. I didn’t make it to as much programming as I’d have liked, but there was business to attend to: the launch of my collection Monstrous Affections, along with ChiZine’s other fantastic titles; the launch of Tesseracts Thirteen, Nancy Kilpatrick and David Morrell’s